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4/18/2012 12:00PM

How People Pick a Pet at a Shelter

Kelsey Hubbard talks with Dr. Katherine Miller about how to choose a pet at the animal shelter, and Dollar Shave Club CEO Michael Dubin joins WSJ's Emily Glazer to talk about how the online razor seller is challenging the big brands. Photo: ASPCA.

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I ... a cancer diagnosis ... of prostate cancer and available treatment options ... and the impact more on top of all the shelter in the study had some revealing remarks on that one of that coming up a whole lot more here in Lunchbreak ... will everyone I'm Kelsey Hubbard thanks for watching the beest live factoring in ... pretty late to Warren Buffett cancer diagnosis the billionaire investor ... has announced its first stage prostate cancer Melinda Beck for the Wall Street Journal is here ... to tells more about the disease how it's treated ... welcome ... thank you counting things are being there obviously a ... a scary diagnosis for him but I'm not necessarily a life threatening ... absolutely in fact he's been given something like a ninety nine percent ... chance of a full recovery ... and that this is that Dylan and that millions of American and face some plain airlines because ... let's face it ... almost every man lives long enough will develop prostate cancer by very few of them ever having the same tactics they can find out early on and on he really do have a choice of trading in or not and and a small about fifteen percent of them ... on to go on to become lethal and it's it's hard to tell the difference right now to be a test conducted through which will be slow growing and no symptoms or the one to the ... right and not at this point out that once you get in there and take a prostate out he can be moral and analysis I and and see whether he may be that bad enough ... that they are consequences to that that surgery right yes the downside is that in in a significant number of cases men who ... have defrosted turn the heater surgically armed with radiation can develop some kind of incontinence or intends on ... techniques to getting better all the time but it's not it's not a benign procedure buying its status and that that warm Buffett announced he will be receiving radiation treatment yet debilitating is that I'm looking at the UN to most people ... can they carry on normal TV less to some extent the flea to think that the treatment that are going through but tell us about what the reasons oh yes my appeal of radiation is that it's not invasive you not actually having surgery on her some forms that can be done ... on me and find sessions and ... of others much additionally I'm gone for many weeks ... on end you really don't feel that any sentence immediately ... with a little disconcerting that radiation is that ... the damage can become humility and and you can end up down the road having continents or in tents problems in our artists apparent right away is the mice the researchers ... took us for Bennett's house first then recommending on in terms of universal screenings from the human need for peace with the potential apostate ... and this is been very controversial and it's still a matter of some debate ... several years ago that that that test were said ... to Karen and in your eighties don't ask don't look for this because the chances are very great that even if we find prostate cancer ... it will never bother you in your remaining lifetime ... I want all demand to umbrage at that because it sounded like ... well ... we don't matter anymore which which was really not on message you are trying to send ... more recently just this past year ... the same service came out and said ... we really shouldn't be looking out ... at Aunt men in general for prostate cancer aam certainly year higher risk factors ... family history for example he should be getting tested at ... the same because this dilemma ... happens to so many men and some inane and end up getting ... surgery radiation for what could be unnecessary ... not even give them that ... that terrible Thompson's choice it seems so calm her sons is that when he had studied about her work in the second of it through to get nutrients found parallel yet a similar defence that there aren't a false positive and perhaps ... of freedom of NetApp fitting think that that similar in what was happening now with the same today and you know we've all been interred forever ... early diagnosis its early treatment ... leads to save lives and and that history and that ... in this case it ... may well be that ... a lot of these cancers were not life threatening in the first place and were causing more problems on finding an intriguing ... the stock is simple ... yet not also obviously when when am ET and public figures celebrities that is warm Buffett ... I is eyeing us to something like this perhaps more men will be more wear and eat into it when we recommend for people out there maybe listening to the story reading more about prostate cancer which should be no about how peace be ... dealing with their doctor presses ECB on ... every man is and everyone is different on ... everybody has different risk factors if you do as a family history of prostate cancer for chicken meat that struck early ... on ... African Americans a higher and higher rated this thing on ... the domestic population ... talk about your individual case with your doctor on the matter what the overall recommendation say ... and if you decide to get your ... PSA testing ... realize that it can rise for reasons other than prostate cancer ... aam infection is on all kinds of things getting tested again and again and again in the PC and rising ... that's really should be ... concerned and and even if you go to the stage and having a biopsy that you're here then its prostate cancer ... really you look at ... the pros and cons and figure out whether ... you might be better off just watching it ... very hard to be told you're cancer and and watch like I'm growing numbers of men and ... and if you watched very closely maybe all the cash and the foreign ... ports France with a bigger problem rightly think you so much that I think racing on the sale of ... any of you not that ... we appreciate that ... RI will appear in a company that's looking to cut costs or perhaps is dealing with the growing mobile workforce you may be in in in that jeopardy of losing your personal workspace Robinson Adele is here to tells about this new trend ... in corporate America I cut out and passing Eric felt a lot of people there are that there would be forgiven at greater packaged achievement they ... they have gotten a consistent level of that and you think of the thirteen men land and keep that up to ... the ... aam and company policies about office the scientists are planning catching up to the way people actually work and were more people working from places other than ask ... whether it's at home ... whether they are on the road for their jobs and so that's wasted space in recent days cost money ... to what's going on down alot companies they're actually having to be the freelance employees are tempering police to come into the office will then occupy that space while somebody to weigh on a business trip or not I think I think I'll dip and some companies do it that way and I think employees might have some problem with that because ... you want someone in your spots ... aam but what other companies are doing is up with with and please don't come in every day ... they are giving up their gas and our economy from running employee isn't a safe wherever they want they can reserve some places you can reserve a cute you can see reserve a table at American Express you can just kind of ... know what to my account during and stick out plug in your laptop and just work from and where he worked to what are they doing in terms of office files office materials that were detected story how many common eating to take it all depends but I think a lot of it is to try to move people on to but the morning documents on mine you know we've all heard about people stop this and we don't have one here in NL and you know that when that suppose to be ... so nobody is right and so ... when you don't have thesis story here John ... chances heading into more stuff online ... the overall effect an office productivity there been ... studies done and to what the sense you workers and their ability to get the job done ... it's on it's a hurdle for a lot of people to get over ... on by as I think that a Pakistani fuchsia to increase creativity friend and spending all your time emailing back and forth you're actually may be going over to that person who was at the table next to you actually have a human fetal conversation crazy that may seem that and the things done sometimes more efficiently than that it was interesting in your on the Fed the decisions are made faster people are buying down in the in the know it might sound ... again ... people that were meant is that their lot of tension in the company PT talked to that tried to do this or people resistant air ... is their certain that we know that people say well given the track twenty eight ... because not every company is forcing people I mean American Express from staff of which are the countries I focused on ... the giving their employees a survey to find out how the market people who are ... weak in a certain type of person they are the ones who were were doing this in the midst of our goals ... there some logistical issues ... um you know people who don't have things readily available are making it clear ... on an American Express people were saying they don't have teeth ... I don't have Staples and so they they change their policy a little bit to make those things available and other challenges that profit for the companies in terms of ... security of online material in that ... everything is on mine intermodal in moving around ... chances are computers can get lost self-inflicted lost the sensitive company materials on independence and ... think that this necessarily make that more big issue except that CQG issue anyway and companies are certainly on top of that because the gonna be ... I think he's the one thousand RS didn't hear the name paperless and that ... the ... mobile space in front of you are deaf and and and that's really they aren't ... I'll all credit card issuers are trying to sweeten their deal to lure consumers will tell you what they're offering coming up on lunch ... welcome back to lunch break I'm Kelsey Hubbard thanks to sticking with us here at the beest live ... now if you're like me you I guess the question that debit or credit card purchase WellPoint a site with us unless the credit card company's internal our ... customers away from the standard car's Annamarie Andria this from SmartMoney dot com if your telephone on it ... I don't feel of a credit card to if ... not the debit card lenders and credit cards are now offering the deal to people ... credit cards are becoming more consumer friendly after years of rising fees and interest rates consumers are finally catching a break here ... I'm with card issuers have been doing and what are the things that they have been offering a lot of on the zero percent ... Apr promotional offers the basically you get your credit card and have ... a year's NPC nearly two years where you can use it without incurring any interest charges whatsoever ... of weeks amid increasing those of the anthem increasing card issuers ... been eliminating the is ... this the part ... of the seven eleven aided the foreign transaction fee to use a cart surprised ... that she secretly eliminated balance transfer fee is four times the free card for new customers ... though they are getting more consumer friendly ... I salute the zero percent interest rate offers because ... he found great at first but if you point out in Europe all those of the largest weeding previously ... Franco what they're doing is sweeping the deals like the one making cars look very appealing but the problem of course that consumers can get tripped up on these low teaser rates on the last person period of time on and then after that we still have about an existing balance when to use to going public Anido ... peel cut off in full each month I'm you will be pink still high interest rates but ... the SIM card fit to stand out BLS into the best monthly or seven zero to fend off for undefeated Titans like MasterCard this card on Thursday will in fact for eighteen months on purchases and balance transfers is also the I'd chiefly card which offers zero percent for eighteen months and its ... people I'm the market right now that is not cheap but hard to aid balance transfer fee you wanna take a balance from the second card ... to put it on to a new card ... for new customers for the first NBC cannot ... charge a fee ... on the cards that really stand out because it is very important on their ... actual interest rate is very well at least compared to the industry average ... that average RightNow's about twelve to thirteen percent ... of course many cards go much higher than that ... aam but when you look at cars like the first command think platinum visa card ... cartridge six point two five percent ... that is a very good deal right now and in the consumers who don't have good credit ... there's actually some good deals out there right now also can get an ice bucket if you miss actively campaigning ... did back then jump upward instilled in every one of the lovely as consumer protections that went into effect the card Act a couple years ago ... on the doping consumer some protection there I'm the only way that eight on a short can increase to three ... and especially during fifteen balance is a few are more than sixty eight three and a payment so there are some protections that still ... EQR me on these cards and if you don't pay the balance off in full each month he really doesn't pay well and feels kind of get wiped out a candle other people ... to use credit cards because they like the cap stock options somewhat seedy looking for that so prospect options right now are getting better I too wanna look for card that offers a minimum of one percent back on all purchases but higher than that time Select category so right now the American Express card ... I'm that is the card I've ... began offering up to six percent ... on the heat she freedom that the card ... is offering up to five percent out one thing to keep in mind here is that the more generously offers becalmed ... item or eliminating they are in some ways that like the Cypress and that Fix was that you can get into that ... category ... and the categories tend to change every few months really read the fine print indefinitely ... and we also went on about gas cards that for ... people like to ... get points for towards gas well obviously as gas prices keep getting more expensive on some cards to help Kia at whatever cards is a part of the platinum rewards card from ... the Pentagon Federal credit Union but anybody can actually get this this credit card and you can buy this set caps back on on gas purchases that is a very good deal ... on pencil it on ... its own is interested in buying gas at the warehouse clubs that the cost of for example there is an American Express cost of credit card ... where I'm basically you get up to be percent back on ... gas purchases ... by ... something else it's really helpful is the continued use the card at a ... gas station at Kos voting on you can actually also get discounted gas prices because many of its location cost of ... has discounted gas to get that discount plus the cash back to kind of bland well when when I critically small business cards lot people starting a business of the season for other Latino ... second deck and credit card that will help them what's been a force so over the past year at least a dozen new credit cards for small businesses ... for small businesses have come out the one to look for cards that offer the most rewards at this point and some parts here again to spin out Capital one has a credit card reader BP is two percent ... on cash back on all purchases and the Bank of America which had its own part where on EPA was not up to three percent I'm back on select categories especially like when you looking at gases plus office supply stores sell ... the big thing here is you can point to Stand ... BDR credit card that will reward you generously for that but as you mention the fine print here is that ... it's really not worth spending if you can't pay that balance off in full each month ... great great said thank you so much allowed people in and looking for ... a new credit card wanna know what the Guinea get back all the fine print the everyday Andrea thank the much to bring all the thinking of ... but so what use is your head at the shelter well in the study is pretty revealing on our behavior will top all that coming up and more here on Lunch Break ... I read in you save company is looking to see that the industry on its ear and help the cupboard and here with Italy later from the Wall Street Journal ... and CEO of Dollar Shave Club Michael Beaven thanks for being here thank you for having found the status of the top of a video that you've done on my knitting to be taken off and on violent they say let's take a look ... sch teacher interest in the steel blades in our hear the case yet to get ahead ... it's a gentle atop the key is ... that you like spending twenty dollars a month on brand name razors ... nineteen go to Roger Federer ... on to tennis ... I think your basic needs a vibrating head of a ... flashlight a back scratcher and ten when its ... Datsun ... grandfather had one two a m on the ... exterior paint for Chief continually ... been scuppered by your blogs every month ... of a hundred I can ship a right to ... the ... I obviously has a knack for comedy enough that they liberated the on line ... the inherent must be a lead of eleven dollars in love again ... what made you decide the first of all tea on the freeze their industry the free app ... saturated place to go but the minutes to lease the didn't do our idea ... yet well I think most guys are tired of paying brand name prices for for cheap tech that they know me let me point out the video I mean most guys that are looking to save money wherever they can and and razors were great place to do it and ... razors are when the most regular things that we use and ... going to the store and having a go to that reserve for chips where you have to find the guy with the key is a good twenty minute experience and ... you know it's pretty primitive so you know price and convenience that that seemed like a big opportunity for us and somehow I didn't video about ... well this is kind of the brand that always wanted to create one that we can find one that can be a little irreverent and ... no video I spent some time and digital marketing in and video and audio video is very powerful and ... I wanted to make the case that this is a great business I'm in eighteen eighty ... in a fun way and comedies music and people tend to remember things when they're presented music with ... my family are happy if it if it opted to leave written about this company ... what if it weren't that if blacks in this incident dominated from ... Procter and gamble to wear on the Gillette obviously huge brand ... tells about what your that what you found out every certainly have a lot of math science dying to chat with my my knee and like you mention Gillette and say ... all in this industry to laugh at the Don Donny them two thirds of the market ... a lot that many wary eating that I've literally ... after the story ran we've been hearing from people and all they want to know and ... help me get those retailers that are less expense and ... and also the convenience that they don't have to go to the store and do the whole process so it shows that ... there is a place to disrupt this market ... in twenty ten CD how did you come to the conclusion that men would be willing to sign up for ... the service that would deliver the region's to the door ... rather than to say how well you've been around a little ETF certainly ... not what the kids again it's it's that started ... twenty minutes adhered a mean who wouldn't like to pick up twenty minutes every month I'm it's it's just easier and guys this is again one of the most rain in things that we do why why can't I might re invent the internet is not to save money and to make our lives easier the ... axis of reasons ... and so it's it's red it's one ... thing that happens very interesting is that if the dollar Steve Kline and we talked about this a little bit of interviewing members ... think that you know I'm an aunt or you get a card that you know very funny in a kind of shows that you're part of something ... anything that appeals to men as well ... yes absolutely at the gets it in that summit were turned into a street value ... of around what it means to be a member every month and ... you know we want people to spend a minute or two of the package that they get maybe it's a laugh may get something free maybe it's a discount whatever it is ... you know we wanted Creek community I'm around this idea of what it means to be ... in this club and and I think that's can it be something that resonates with our members along with fatty enacting delivered product that being twenty minutes of your day to social media aspect of living in ... a meeting for certain companies especially the high court to have a video that gone viral ... how would that impact the two businesses that a major part of the American factories for four guests usually means social media component of the things it's can be important for us to driving business ... but also giving our our members are users a place to come ... and and connect with each other ... we like to think of our member as a smarter consumer than the average consumer they like to save money they know where to do it ... um and we wanna give them tools ... to B of A connected each other and we also wanna give them up content that makes their lives a little bit better sometimes it's can be about shaving other times it's can be about ... everything else I mean whatever whatever that comes to mean it will will be decided both by House and buy them ... clothes but it's a country club or a health club ... it's about the people it's not about the Walzer the institution ... it's about the people and and that's who we wanna come to be about to die if added three category three ... um I think you know we want it to come and go the full breadth of of that of the opportunity you know some people really like it when blade razor cars the tight corners around facial hair ... the shares in the end of rate now aam and and and some people have had become accustomed to the idea that more boys are better and I think that's not a market that ... we wanted to see that either I the only last word on that ... the competition he has been on the freedom ETP spots on mine in effect from turning the industry I'm here with the club concept of a heady you find what at first support inter member while the dollar should cut the strings something very interesting other companies are doing as well we've seen a lot of ... on line research downstairs men are useless dot com ... ah that's why and felt and so what is happening elsewhere ... it just hasn't been as fast as Dollar Shave and part about it because of their viral Danielle ... I'm at the same time while collecting find out about this the day that Nvidia when out ... everything and whether it's impacting fallacy know they just want to March its early days I think it's interesting to see what will happen in a broader pattern will baffling be watching ... we will leave lasting until our people the blocking of the online thank you Michael for doing that you have it that the imbalanced and whether ... I could even though the family from the Wall Street Journal to someone ceiling thanks for being here ... though is ... that they are moving on to the start of the telly about it there is a science behind how you pick this hats ... from the shelter whether they're cute whether they want to defend the state's Dr Catherine Miller is here from the ASPCA ... to tell us ... how our behavior affects how we fix the path to lifetime thing for being anti into having a lot of people got a pet shelters and take a penny to three say this one spoke to me this is the one I knew that that is actually a sign for it because they have coming out on how we can be that you brought a low key ... this is that it will spend the from the SPCA adoption center ... thing and twenty five percent and our pets adopted from shelters a thumbs up the million animals the year ... and pre history and we didn't really know exactly ... how people accusing as pets ... has had a crazy quilt of information ... to me this ECB said leave its many states ... to get into the doctors at mines and ask them why would you pick this one was ... certainly I understand ... that a severe than the features of the iPad the cuteness factor likely to grow ... that's right ... on to what we found is that the appearance of the animal ... was more inclined to doctors and dogs and cats ... and he could be because dogs have different needs and different body shapes and sizes more serving passed by the ... British health is that they might when and have a conversation with the doctors ... to help the sea Passat this teeny he ... entered into the even and also that they can find a lifelong commitments ... calm little bit more than just skin deep commitment to other people looking for stupidly when they come into to the cash ... when she's attack people are more interested in the TV with people ... and that's it means that means they're looking ... for ... the animals ... that debt are interested in being with an insane showing social behavior ... on with the truth and Lawrence in appearance but of the peak in feline in an effort to be invaded added the very different from a ... IBB tacky to pursue a full grown ... yes there was an differences in with the doctors were looking for the kittens they made appearances landed the main reason said that the most important reasons that they chose the animal ... on that when it comes to adults on their interest in personality in the heaving with people ... on winning ten cents per adult cats attend the site that ... adult dogs and people come into ... season and all of what they were specifically ... well appearance again as the number one on the misfit dogs ... and that the new people and a personality that God is in the top three in also how well ... he seemed to interact and with with family members with children ... and when we got a copy of the the the cute factor comes into play at the very much ... in this category but I'm saving up to the Addison certain breeds are better with certain family says it intends to try to ... make that a pre match the committee comes in looking for a puppy ... well with the SB six is important for shelters to be able to understand ... with good conversations lie in impact people ... we indicated that their interest in speaking with the LivePerson ... during the adoption process ... to get their information about an arm or sell been getting information from one side from the fund in the heat on a piece of paper ... so it's a great opportunity for shelters have a conversation to find a good match with an often the doctors lifestyle for their family and for me for other animals apparently the ... in home and it's probably important for people to understand the history ... of the animal that they are choosing to Intel's not ... really came from certain for selling fake being have ... and have adopted because the previous owners in the conversation you're having a well ... read what what we found was that that is actually more interesting getting information about the animals helping to feed their ... NEI about their prior history ... sell out I can be important in you can tell us a lot about the mole ... on ... the health of maybe understand it then that might be overstating in you in your history ... the panel in a new home sell into shelters can spend what time ... getting information they got this really want which is about helping the heat and ... let people come in for a kitten or puppy understanding and a lot of training to go on ... I mean that something in a creek running Fire Bowden and that was plain wrong when they're teasing him ... well meaning that specifically that she knew that when we found was that information they ... doubt this green biking can siphon animal ... taking them out of the candle spending time with an increase in ... was made as the most important thinking and he's really in any experience at when when when adopting sell relented and tricks on Tuesday to get the Sabbath candles and get them out among the doctors especially and they have gotten passed over by a doctor's ... Media Akshay Lincolnshire need it when inside the kennel thinking ... how and among the public the media the scene and pitching glowing personality fiasco that make you not out of the candle especially the one that would hit its bottom line ... but no one ever going to freak her out on away ... many amenities offered a thank you so much ... for bringing us a lot for instance in the PC thinking ... I had lunch break for now to some of her watching it thinking that is that the beest live I'm Kelsey Hubbard do not ... succeed in that one Simon Constable will be here with digits of predestination ... for earner ...